I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium
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Re: I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium
#2The last time I tried Codium, not being able to use Remote Development was a showstopper. Has the situation improved since then?
Re: I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium
#3(Proprietary is spelled propriety in a few places.)
I’m surprised VS Codium is so well packaged..
Re: I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium
#4> I was increasingly getting upset about their extension marketplace, where there is an increased number of extensions starting to sell pro versions of the extensions we used for free.
I'm not familiar with any particularly egregious examples, but I don't find "developer wants to sell software" all that outrageous.
Re: I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium
#5> I was increasingly getting upset about their extension marketplace, where there is an increased number of extensions starting to sell pro versions of the extensions we used for free.
This is actually great news. Some extensions, especially language ones, are very poor, and paying for them (if someone makes a commercial version) is the only way to guarantee a good development experience. Ruby is an example, and switching to IntelliJ is not smooth for people used to VSC.
Re: I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium
#6Their main argument is “no telemetry” (or sometimes “no cemetery tracking”…), but VS Code has a setting to disable telemetry [0], and I would trust that it’s really disabled if you set it so (why would they lie about something quite trivial to check with Wireshark or such?)
> I’m sure there is a small performance gain because you don’t have telemetry running in the background sending data to Microsoft.
Have you profiled it? Have you compared VSCodium and VSCode with telemetry off?
[0]: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/telemetry
Re: I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium
#7If you're really that concerned about using propriety software why not help build the emacs or vim ecosystem instead?
Re: I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium
#8Their main argument is “no telemetry” (or sometimes “no cemetery tracking”…), but VS Code has a setting to disable telemetry [0], and I would trust that it’s really disabled if you set it so (why would they lie about something quite trivial to check with Wireshark or such?) > I’m sure there is a small performance gain because you don’t have telemetry running in the background sending data to Microsoft. Have you profi…
The open-vsx.org loads Google Analytics (via GTM) for telemetry, without any prompts or consent, with no way to opt out of it AFAICT.
Re: I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium
#9The last time I tried Codium, not being able to use Remote Development was a showstopper. Has the situation improved since then?
No, and don't expect it or Live Share to ever land[0].
None of the "Remote" extensions are FOSS, and they restrict usage to "validly licensed" copies of VS Code[1] – plus the server side code for it is closed source. So getting it into Codium would require a clean room implementation, essentially.
[0] https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/wiki/Extensions-Compati...]
[1] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items/ms-vscode-remote....
Re: I’m switching from VS Code to VS Codium
#10If you're really that concerned about using propriety software why not help build the emacs or vim ecosystem instead?
Because some people don't necessarily want to tinker with emacs or vim for days just to get their perfect setup going